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Fabulous reads: Get your track on with compact pocket guide

Overview - Pocket Guide Tracks and Tracking in Southern Africa by Louis Liebenberg

Pocket Guide Tracks and Tracking in Southern Africa, Louis Liebenberg, Penguin Random House South Africa/ Struik Nature, ISBN: 9781775848714 

THIS fully revised and updated edition of the earlier Photographic Guide to Tracks & Tracking in Southern Africa is now published in Pocket Guide format.

Featuring new photographs throughout, this handy guide provides simple tools to help interpret the tracks and signs of some 105 southern African mammals, reptiles, frogs and birds.

Along with spoor illustrations of each animal readers are treated to information on behaviour, habits, the habitat, and up-to-date distribution maps that show where the animals occur. PHOTO: Submitted by publisher
The pocket guide provides the reader with simple tools to help interpret 105 different animal tracks. PHOTO: Submitted by publisher

Photographs and diagnostic spoor illustrations are given for each animal, along with information on behaviour, habits and habitat, and up-to-date distribution maps show where the animals occur.

Special features on insects and scat supplement the text and a detailed introduction offers basic guidelines for learning how to become a tracker.

Compact and easy to use, this book will be an invaluable tool in the wild.

Insight is also even given on tiny bugs and arachnids. PHOTO: Submitted by publisher

Louis Liebenberg is a leading authority on animal spoor identification. He has won international acclaim for his research into the art of tracking and for his development of CyberTracker.

This unique computerised tracking system, available for smartphones and computers, enables users to record and store their field data at the touch of a button.

You can read the full story on our App. Download it here.

MariClair Smit

Former journalist and current KZN digital campaign co-ordinator.

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